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Article: Virginia Woolf: A woman's view
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- August 2, 1996
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Hermione Lee, Professor of English Literature at York
University, has devoted five years to a biography of Virginia
Woolf, who drowned herself in 1941 during an attack of mental
illness. Virginia Woolf is published next month by Chatto, price
pounds 10
Surprisingly, I'm the first English woman writer to write a full
scholarly biography of Virginia Woolf. There hasn't been a
full-scale one using a lot of primary material written in England
since the book by her nephew Quentin Bell in 1972. He rather
depoliticised her - we have a friendly argument about that.
I've tried to react against some of the standard lines on her
that have become accepted in the last 10 or 15 years. I ...